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sports merchandise and betting platform Fanatics will acquire a federally regulated exchange and clearing house from BGC to launch and settle its own prediction market operations. Fanatics and BGC also plan to develop new market data products that combine prediction market activity with traditional financial market data. This deal enables Fanatics to enter the prediction market space, competing directly with platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket.
According to Southern Metropolitan Daily, Tencent is negotiating to become the largest shareholder of general AI Agent company Manus. A consortium of Chinese capital led by Tencent plans to repurchase all equity of Manus from Meta at a valuation of approximately 2 billion USD. However, sources familiar with the matter revealed that upon completion of the transaction, Tencent will still maintain a minority shareholder status and will not hold a controlling stake. Manus is an AI Agent product launched by Butterfly Effect Company. It went viral overnight in China in March 2025, and its annualized revenue has exceeded 100 million USD. Previously, Meta announced the acquisition of Manus, but due to the intervention of the Ministry of Commerce and the foreign investment security review mechanism, the acquisition was legally prohibited and required to be revoked in April 2026. This repurchase by Chinese capital marks the subsequent progress following the halt of the acquisition.
According to PR Newswire, Valour, a subsidiary of DeFi Technologies, has secured approximately USD 11 million in institutional investment to purchase its Hedera (HBAR)-related ETP products—around USD 10 million for the product listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and approximately USD 1 million for Valour Hedera SEK, listed on Sweden’s Spotlight Exchange. DeFi Technologies stated that both transactions were facilitated by its Abu Dhabi workshop, reflecting growing institutional demand for regulated, exchange-traded products providing exposure to Hedera and supporting the growth of its assets under management in the German market.